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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
CkaJUografhy, Paper rtuilmig, tft- 4rr- On sub- scription, lOi. ; and 10>. more oa the delivery of a volume in folio, containing about 200 sheets. These proposals were printed on a half sheet, with a spedmen on another, containing the life of William Caxton, with a list of books printed by him. At his death these manuscripts were purchased by Humphrey Wanley, lord Oxford's fibrarian, for his library, and came in course with the Harleian manuscripts, in the British museum. In 1728, a print of him was engraved by Creo. Vertue, firom a picture by Mr. Howard.
It appears that Bagford was married, or at least that he was a father, pretty early in life ; for there is, in the same collection, a power of attorney from John Bagford, junior, to John Bagford, senior, empowering him to claim and receive the wages of his son, as a seaman, in case of his death, dated in 1713, when the father could only have been of the age of thirty-eight yean. See Harleian manuscripts, 5995.
The volumes in the British museum, under the general title of BagfortCt Collectanea, consist of printed title-pages, advertisements, hand-bills, fugitive papers of all kinds, vignettes, prints, &c. pasted into paper books, sometimes with manu- script notes interspersed, but oftner without any.
In one volume, there are specimens of letters of all sorts, as well those used in foreign coun- tries as in England. In other volumes are titles and fragments of almanacks, from the year 1537 downwards, with titles of bibles, law books, &c. printed by the company of stationers in London; titles of books of all kinds printed by the London printers, disposed into some sort of order, viz., as to die subject of the book, or dwelling-place of the printer; title-pages of books printed in Oxford and Cambridge ; title- pages of those printed in Scotland and Ireland; title-pages and frontispieces, with other speci- mens of the works of our English engravers ; titles of books printed by Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, Quakers, by other sectaries, by seditious persons, &C.; cuts of monuments, tombs, funerals. See. in England; cuts of the same in foreign parts, with cuts of the manner of executing criminals; cuts, with some drawings of habits of divers nations, of several trades, of utensils, weapons, fountains, or wells, with other prints useful in Joiners' and masons' work; cuts of figures in different postures, as writing, read- ing, meditation, with all the utensils used in writing, &c. during some ages ; cuts of schools. The heads of some arithmeticians; alphabets; specimens of knot work, and some great-text and other letters. Specimens of letter-graving, heads of writing-masters, Dutch, French, and English. Specimens of letters engraven in small ; as also of short-band, &c. Heads of short-hand writers, and specimens of their works; and many other things. Title-pages of books, and printers' devices; printing in the Spanish Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal; titles of books published by English catholics, alphabets of Plantine let- ter, &c. Title-pag{», alphabets, and printers' devices, used at Baal, Zurick, and other places
in Switzerland, the United Nethedandc, Fnnce, and Germany, with some others of PoUad, Switzerland, Denmark, Bohemia, France, aiMl Italy, with some others of Geneva, Sicily, &c. Collections of acts of parliament, ordonnanoes, proclamations, &c. regulating printing ; with many other papers. Proposals for printm^ par- ticular books. Catalogues of books, relstiiig to painting, printing, &c. Specimens of paper dif- ferentiy coloured. Marks on the outrades of reams of paper, with orders, cases, reasons, &c. relating to the manufacturer. Old prints or cuts from the year 1467 ; with the efSgies aad devices of many printers, foreigners and Engliali; vrith other cuts and specimens of paper, &c. Collection of epitaphs of the printers in Basil ; Life of John Froben ; catalogues of books. See. Collections relating to the lives of the engnven of different countries. Tities of books printed in most parts of Europe before the year 1500. Collection of patents for printing law books, &c. Some German cards. With many other volumes of collections of the kinds above-mentioDed, though not so well sorted.
1716, June 10. Mr. Forobn, a printer, was shot by a soldier in Newgate-street, Londcni, fo' wearing a white rose, the emblem of the exiled family. The guards were placed in different puts of London, to prevent the people wearing white roses, and many persons were severely injuzed.
1716, Dec. 10. Isaac Dalton was convicted of printing a pamphlet, called the Shift Shifted, for which he was sentenced to pay a fine of twenty marks, to stand in the pillory, and to he imprisoned one year. Mr. Georae Flint was the supposed auUioT of this pamphlet, and fer which he was imprisoned in the tower, but made his escape. Mrs. Flint and Mary Dalton (sister to Isaac) were imprisoned in Newgate.
1716. TheNottau/kamPottyNo.l. Printedand published by John CoUyer.* This paper was continued till 1732.
1716, Jan. 4. The Supplement, by way of Postscript to the Weehbf Journal, and oOua Weekly Accounts, No. 1.
1716, Jan. 7. Newt Letter, No. 1.
1716, Jan. 7. London Post, with the best ac- count of the whole week's news, foreign and domestic ; with room left to write into the connliy without the charge of double postage.
1716, Jan. 16. General Pott, No. 1.
1716, Jan. 19. Political Tatler; by Joshoa Standifast, Esq. No. 1.
1716, Jan. 21. Protestant Pacquet, No. I.
1716, Feb. 6. The Tea-TabU,IHo. 1. By sir Richard Steele. This paper was published once a fortnight, but reached only three numbers.
1716, Feb. 18. Robin's latt Shift; or, we^y remarks and political reflections upon the most material news, foreign and domestic.
1716, Feb. 19. Remarkable Occurrences, No.I.
- John Onnton mentloiu a Mr. Richards, bocdueOa.
of NottlOKhain, of whom he aayi, he " Pnrniet Us baai- ness very closely, and is a person of i;reat integritr. i dweK with him two yean, and fannd hlni a good fty- master."
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